It is generally accepted that divine service affords a legitimate opportunity for the congregation to assess not only the appearance, deportment, elegance and possible wealth of new arrivals to the pa...
He had begun the diary less as a record of his life (for whom and why? What life?) than as a regular and self-indulgent exploration, a means of makings sense of the past years, part catharsis, part co...
Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people’s money, other people’s safety, other people’s future.
Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you’ve been busily cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary.
He began drinking heavily and lived in a way which a friend described as making sense only if he had no expectations of being alive much beyond Thursday.
What about his style? asked Dalgliesh who was beginning to think that his reading had been unnecessarily restricted.Turgid but grammatical. And, in these days, when every illiterate debutante thinks s...
Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.
The dinosaur, with its small brain, had survived for a couple of million years; it had done better than Homo sapiens.
The attempt to analyse was, of course, an attempt at exorcism.
Neighbors whose jealousy of such a triumph exceeded any satisfaction in the prospect of the union were able to console themselves by averring that Mr Darcy's pride and his wife's caustic wit would ens...
If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better c...
Dalgliesh was too experienced to assume that fear implied guilt; it was often the most innocent who were the most terrified.
Find depressing his determination to make his characters suffer even when a little common sense on both his part and theirs could avoid it. Tess is one of the most irritating young women in Victorian...
We have all sinned, Mr. Darcy, and we cannot look for mercy without showing it in our lives.
Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.
That's one of the frustrations of this job. You meet people, question them, get intrigued by them, eliminate them from inquiries and never see them again.
She would not wish anyone violently dead but, since it had happened, one might as well make the most of it.
She was wearing a hat heavily trimmed with crisp pink ribbons which looked new, bought no doubt as tribute to the importance of the occasion. It would have been more impressive had it not sat atop a b...
She had quickly learned that to show unhappiness was to risk the loss of love.
. . equality is a political theory not a practical policy. . .